going into 2026 with one fewer threat to my comfort as we say goodbye to the baby tooth that had been making trouble since early 2021. as annoying and drawn out as the process has been, still not as bad as my traumatic tooth extraction and oral surgery with inadequate anesthetic 30yrs ago!

THIS. Did you know sickle cell is curable, now? FULLY curable. If you're feeling down or despairing about what FEELS like technology/advancement/science "standing still" or being fully malicious, I have great news: You're not paying attention to actual science. Just tech industry marketing.

Exceptional work here. Needless to say, the factual details do not support the administration’s narrative used to justify this killing spree. We have a word for premeditated killing outside of armed conflict: Murder.

Preventing children and an entire population from receiving medical care and aid is tantamount to mass murder.

Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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In light of recent Ai related nonsense in the creative industry, I wanted to present some easy-to-digest facts about Generative Ai

My takeaway is that we have not been mean enough to the New York Times this year www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/a...

“I think AI is only inevitable when we believe the lie of its inevitability.”

I don't know how many times it needs to be said that you absolutely should not let fucking "AI" anywhere near your legal contracts, either in creating them or evaluating them, but apparently it needs to be said at least one more time, so allow me to say it again, here, right now

A pair of happy hammerhead sharks (ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)

Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

An arson attack in Colorado had detectives stumped. The way they solved the case could put everyone at risk.

"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

"Protecting" Nigerian Christians was a nakedly political move. If he wanted to save lives he could save 600,000 by reinstating USAID without firing a shot. This was not a Christian act, this was a play for Christian votes in the face of massive moral and ethical failure.

It's annoying to see the hand-wringing over a small number of wealthy people making empty threats to move because of tax increases, when there are actually people leaving desirable places en masse because they can't find affordable places to live

Grateful for every chance to let history speak a little louder. Catch my 2025 History Teacher of the Year interview on C-SPAN 2 | American History TV We talk teaching, truth-telling, and staying committed to students and stories in a moment that asks a lot of educators. #NHTOY #NCHTOY

how to dress for the trump kennedy center now that the armrests are made from cold hard marble

Worth repeating this with every new Epstein document drop. The party of Denny Hastert is the party of Jim Jordan is the party of Matt Gaetz is the party of Donald Trump. Looking the other way and protecting child predators from the law is their brand.

And now for some motivation from the Owensboro Burger King.

HHS is trying to force Seattle Children's into doing a Sophie's choice of abandoning trans youth or see kids with cancer or other serious illness have their coverage and care disrupted. That's what this is about. Hopefully, the courts put a quick stop to this like the subpoenas.

Day laborers say they feel targeted over anti-loitering speakers installed in the parking lot of Home Depot in Cypress Park. Aisha Wallace-Palomares captured the sentiment shared by day laborers and community organizers over these speakers at a recent press conference.

Do you think the NYT ever gets tired of being a voice for the worst people you’ve ever heard of in your entire life or

JUST LIKE THEY DID WHEN MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTED A WEALTH TAX OH WAIT THEY DIDN'T MASSACHUSETTS ACTUALLY HAS MORE RICH PEOPLE NOW BECAUSE THE STATE CAN AFFORD TO BE A NICER PLACE FOR EVERYONE TO LIVE

On no, the people who don't pay taxes will run away and not pay taxes elsewhere! Won't someone think of the unpaid taxes that the state will lose?

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Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

I’m from Whoville, and I say kill the Grinch!

Christmas Day was a fortnight since my mom died. I started reading GRIEFSTRIKE! so I will be processing my grief like a boss* in hardly any time** at all * or Assistant to the Regional Manager ** geological

You can tell that LotR was written by an academic because Gandalf disappears for like 20 years doing research to answer a single question.

happy holidays, all!

One way you know AI is a scam is that it's sold as a solution for everything. Nothing is a solution for everything.

Exactly this: the administration’s concentration camps should be a howling, daily outrage, a scandal of historic proportions.

The White House is now citing "national security" for everything it does. Seriously, check out these headlines. It's just the last few weeks. If you know authoritarian history, then you know how menacing this is.

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

BREAKING: Judge James Boasberg rules for those deported under the Alien Enemies Act on March 15 — certifying a class, finding the U.S. maintained constructive custody over them at CECOT, finding they were not given due process, and ordering return or that such process be given by Jan. 5, 2026.

Can confirm: Pulled 60 Minutes “Inside CECOT” segment on the El Salvador mega prison housing hundreds of Venezuelan deportees sent by the U.S. is on Global TV’s free app

I feel like I'm going to get a lot of use out of this Pluribus screencap

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

Space news is the best. Like, what do you mean there's a runaway supermassive black hole 10 million times bigger than the sun moving through space at 2 million miles per hour www.space.com/astronomy/bl...

This is precisely how fascism works, by grabbing at and taking away a little more freedom whenever events lend themselves to it. Bit by bit you lose your rights, until you turn around and realize the road you're on has been long, and democracy is well behind you over the horizon.

Also I really feel that it needs to be taught as part of basic wilderness survival—if you see a creepy wicker effigy, LEAVE AT ONCE. No good will come of it.

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

I don't want it, Sam Alt Man

today was 1 week since my mom died and I have yet to actually open this book. I do have big feelings now and they are mostly regret at the level of estrangement I had to cultivate for my own protection from the toxic behavior patterns we would inevitably repeat if I maintained more connection.

So angry about that Health and Human Services video I just saw that I can’t even bear to repost it. Leave trans people alone and let them have their healthcare and live their lives, period, end of sentence, stop being so FUCKING weird about this!!!

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ABSOLUTELY NOTHING This horrific fucking ban on gender care for kids absolutely fucking paves the way for a national abortion ban and every time we don't give them mass uprising and mass protest they just do more

Fuck all of you saying "this is inevitable" or "it's here deal with it" or even "it's fine"/"it's not a big deal". Be antihuman on your own time. This is a moveable needle. It's ruining lives (mine included already), ruining the environment, ruining art and creativity, isn't needed and isn't wanted.